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Former Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s border barrier of shipping containers has been largely dismantled just in time for a new Democratic administration, costing tens of millions of dollars over just a few months while they were set up and taken down again.
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Russell Pearce was the lead sponsor of SB 1070, which required law enforcement officers to ask about suspects' immigration status if they had reason to believe they were in the U.S. illegally.
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President Joe Biden says the U.S. will immediately begin turning away Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans who cross the border from Mexico illegally.
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It will be his first visit to the border since taking office.
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U.S. authorities say illegal border crossings by Cubans and Nicaraguans rose sharply in November while overall migration flows were little changed from October.
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The announcement marks the end of the divisive border security effort that has faced months of protests and legal challenges.
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An appeals court rejected efforts to keep in place pandemic-related restrictions on immigrants seeking asylum.
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A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Biden administration from ending a Trump-era policy requiring asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court.
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The Department of Homeland Security says more migrants may be released into the United States to pursue immigration cases when Trump-era asylum restrictions end next week.
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The Supreme Court is taking up a dispute over a blocked Biden administration policy that would prioritize the deportation of people in the country illegally who pose the greatest public safety risk.